Still half of those who enroll in college still fail to earn degrees within six years.
The Boston Globe reports.
College graduation rates for Boston students are up, but that’s not the whole picture
The college graduation rate for Boston high school students has increased sharply in recent years, but about half of those...
Here’s another real news story that looks like something out of The Onion.
By the way, the useless degree was in economics.
The Associated Press reported.
US Student Wins Tuition Refund in Sweden for Useless Degree
A Swedish college has been ordered to refund tuition fees to an American business student for giving her a...
Manhattan district attorney’s office, in agreement with state, allocates $7.5 million in bank forfeiture funds for college programs in prison.
The Wall Street Journal reports.
College Classes Get a Boost at New York State Prisons
During an environmental-geology class about 100 miles north of New York City, college students in forest-green uniforms pored over...
This isn’t very surprising news but it needs to be said again and again as a reminder that higher education is not even closely balanced on politics.
Accuracy in Academia reports.
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
At a recent American Enterprise Institute (AEI) event, panel speakers outlined how self-identifying Marxists outnumber...
Kaku came to the conclusion after studying theoretical particles.
The College Fix reports.
World-renowned professor of theoretical physics: ‘We are in a world … created by an intelligence’
The universe did not form by accident, according to a top scientist.
Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, co-creator of the groundbreaking string field theory and professor of...
The professor made his case in an article for Rolling Stone Magazine but we’re going to use a Campus Reform report to tell you about it.
Drexel law prof. blasts ‘outdated,’ Second Amendment
The Second Amendment is “outdated, a threat to liberty, and a suicide pact” and should be repe...
There are multiple changes.
Minding The Campus reports.
How Chinese Students Are Changing Our Colleges
Nearly 600,000 foreign undergraduate students now study at US colleges and universities, some 165,000 of them from China, the total from China grew by nearly 30 percent in 2009/2010, with a percentage rise in double digits every year since,...
If this gets a foothold on college campuses, the result could be disastrous.
AL.com reports.
University of Alabama student tests positive for Zika
A University of Alabama student who recently studied abroad has tested positive for Zika virus, according to a spokesman for the school.
“Federal privacy laws prevent us from commenting on the student’s...
You can have quite a lot of what you want in a college, but you can’t really have it all.
Forbes reports.
Developing Priorities During The College Search
One of the first students I ever advised about college told me at our first meeting that he wanted a “small liberal arts college in the...
We all know why the media is ignoring this, right?
Investor’s Business Daily reports.
Why Isn’t The Press Covering Clinton For-Profit University Scheme?
Corruption: No doubt you’ve heard all about Donald Trump and the defunct Trump University. The big media have been all over that “scandal.” But what about Bill Clinton, Hillary’s husband, and...
Burns turned defeating Trump into a sort of crusade during his address.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Filmmaker Ken Burns slams “dictatorial” Trump at Stanford: “An insult to our history” [VIDEO]
The 2016 graduating class at Stanford University on Sunday became the latest to be barraged with political comments from one of the many liberal...
Have you noticed that this never happens to liberal speakers on campus?
Heat Street reports.
Police Cancel Milo Yiannopoulos’ Orlando Speech on Muslims and Gays
Citing safety concerns, campus police have canceled a speech by conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of Central Florida that he scheduled in the wake of the Orlando...
Dowling is not the only small private college struggling with financial trouble.
Long Island News reports.
Schumer: Struggling colleges should warn students earlier
NEW YORK – Sen. Charles Schumer says federal education officials should be forcing colleges that are struggling to stay afloat to notify students the schools are on the brink of closure...
People reported seeing a suspicious man wearing a surgical mask.
National Post reports.
No masked gunman at University of Toronto: Report to police was ‘third-hand information’
The University of Toronto shuttered its downtown campus and two hospitals went into lockdown Monday as police investigated reports of a masked man with a gun.
But after six...
A total of 279 colleges provided data for nearly 244,000 bachelor’s degree graduates for the current survey.
Cleveland reports.
Three-quarters of 2015 college grads landed jobs or accepted into grad school within six months, survey shows
CLEVELAND, Ohio – About 76 percent of college graduates in 2015 landed a full-time job or were accepted...
In a new video for Prager University, talk host Larry Elder examines the the role absent fathers have played in the black community.
Take a look below.
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Which poses a bigger threat to black communities: Racism? Or the absence of fathers? Drawing on a sea of official data and his own...
Some work and some do not, according to studies.
Accuracy In Academia reports.
Are Charter Schools Working?
Charter schools are becoming a huge piece of the market in some of America’s most troubled cities. In 2013, 93% of New Orleans students, 54% of Detroit students, and 44% of DC students enrolled in charter schools....
If the school has any guts or brains they’ll expel every single one of them.
Campus Reform reported.
UMN students occupy Regents meeting to demand free tuition
A throng of leftist protesters at the University of Minnesota (UMN) chanted their way into handcuffs Friday as they attempted to hijack a board of regents meeting...
If Turner does suffer any calamity, it “can be attributed to the hex and it can’t be disproven.”
The College Fix reports.
Witches organize ‘mass hex’ for Stanford rapist Brock Turner — to make him impotent
Not satisfied (like many people) with the light sentence given to Stanford swimmer...
Left wing students prevented Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking on campus, then attacked the school’s president for allowing him to come in the first place. Now the president is stepping down.
The Chicago Sun Times reports.
DePaul University president stepping down
DePaul President Dennis Holtschneider announced Monday that he plans to step down at the...
The study covered 132 colleges throughout the United Kingdom.
The College Fix reports.
WHAT white, male privilege? Study shows demographic underrepresented at UK colleges
The UK university admissions service UCAS “for the first time” has put out data regarding the likelihood of college acceptance “based on gender, ethnicity and the social background of applicants.”
And...
Why not just make everyone a valedictorian? Why limit the school to just eight?
Brian Solomon writes at Dartblog.
Eight Valedictorians in the Class of 2016
Last month, we asked how many top honors the College would award for the Class...
